The Recruit: A Taskforce Story

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I’m often contacted about some of the secondary characters in the Taskforce series, so I thought I’d develop a short story around two of them: Knuckles and Decoy. Yes, for Decoy it’s a little bit of a tribute after his trials in Days of Rage. The timing is roughly between One Rough Man and All Necessary Force, with Decoy having just completed Taskforce Assessment and Selection, and Knuckles taking him on his first deployment — an operational training event in a live theater.

Best regards,

Brad Taylor

The morning drizzle caused a single bead of water to track down the windowpane, slicing a trail through the droplets clinging to the glass. Sitting up in bed, the light of false dawn growing in the room, the man watched the drip, thinking of operations past. Of being on the outside, in the wet, the rising sun aggravating the grit in his eyes from nights of sleeplessness.

This job sure has better perks.

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